41 bab Lengkap Many of us are not happy about ourselves, something we have done or not done, or the way we react to other people. We keep recycling sad thoughts until they become what we are.
We can break this cycle . . . we really can choose to be happy.
For most people being happy is not difficult but it does require persistence to undo the habits of a life time.
There are many simple techniques to promote happiness. Some of them you probably heard from your grandmother . . . but there are other, less obvious ways.
The brain makes up about 2 percent of a human's body weight, uses 20% of the oxygen consumed by the body and . . . is often not under our control.
Proof? Try counting slowly with your eyes closed in a quiet place. How far did you get before you lost count and started thinking about something else? Many people can't make it past ten.
Drugs are not the answer.
Why risk addiction while destroying your lungs and your brain with alcohol, nicotine (smoking tobacco or vaping), cannabis (marijuana), opium derived drugs like Oxycontin or other unnecessary and unhealthy chemicals?
If you need to dispel a bad mood, use one or more meditation techniques, evolution's natural way to obtain happiness.
There are external causes of unhappiness and these are discussed in later chapters.
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Thanks for reading. Dunc MacPhun.
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